Curriculum Vitae
Julian A.C. Smart, BSc, PhD

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PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of birth:	27th March, 1964
Marital Status:	Married
Nationality:	British
Address:	28/5 Gillespie Crescent, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH10 4HU
Email:	julian@anthemion.co.uk
Web address:	www.anthemion.co.uk
Telephone:	+44 (0) 131 5306

EDUCATION

1977-1982	Uppingham School, Rutland
1982-1986	University of St. Andrews, Scotland BSc (2:1) in Computational Science
1989-1992	University of Dundee, Scotland PhD in Artificial Intelligence

PROFILE

Julian is an independent software developer, working on tools for writers and programmers at Anthemion Software. He is the principal author and coordinator of an open source cross-platform graphical user interface toolkit wxWidgets, at www.wxwidgets.org. wxWidgets is used by many companies and government and academic organisations around the world, including the company that invented the GUI. Julian is the main author of a wxWidgets book published by Prentice Hall.

Julian has designed and written various other tools and utilities, including:

· Hardy, a multi-platform KBS/meta-CASE tool used in many projects at the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh.

· wxCLIPS, a free tool for developing GUI-enabled knowledge-based software, used in commercial projects at the University of Edinburgh and elsewhere.

· Squirrel is a hierarchical organiser for free-form text notes, images and Web addresses. Squirrel was written using wxWidgets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages:	C/C++, Visual C++, C++Builder, Lisp, Prolog, CLIPS, HTML, Visual Basic, Unix shell
Environments:	Unix (Solaris and Linux), PC/Windows 95/98, Windows NT/2000
Other skills:	KBS embedding, OOAD, GUI design and development using MFC, wxWidgets, WIN32 and Motif, MS Excel programming, CVS

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2002-present

Anthemion Software, Edinburgh, U.K.

Environment:

PC, Windows, Mac

Position:

Technical Director, working on Anthemion’s products: Writer’s Café, DialogBlocks and HelpBlocks.

2000-2002	Red Hat U.K. Ltd, Cambridge
Environment:	PC, Windows, Linux, C++, CVS
Position:	Writing host tools for the eCos embedded operating system, as used in gadgets such as the HipZip audio player from Iomega. wxWidgets was used successfully to write a Windows-only MFC-based application, the eCos Configuration Tool, so that it ran on both Windows and Linux from the same source base. Other duties included release engineering and quality assurance.

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1996-2000

Anthemion Software, Rutland, U.K.

Environment:

PC, Windows, Linux, C++, Visual Basic, Lotus Approach, HTML

Position:

Independent Consultant.

Worked with MFC/VC++, wxWidgets, VBA/Excel. Did GUI OOAD design work and programming, documentation, project management, web site design, and sold wxWidgets CD-ROMs. Clients included Hitachi Europe Ltd. (U.K.), SoftSolutions! (Italy), STI Inc. (U.S.), Atos Netherlands B.V., Photon Design (U.K.)

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1991-1996

Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh

Environment:

UNIX, Sun, Motif, XView, PC, Windows, C++

Position:

Consultant, software designer, programmer. Designed and implemented a multi-platform meta-CASE tool (Hardy) and a multi-platform C++ GUI framework (wxWidgets). Software consultant on multi-million pound DTI-funded project to model business processes. Wrote a number of technical manuals.

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1989-1991

Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee

Environment:

PC, Windows, LISP, Prolog

Position:

Higher Scientific Officer, implementing a model-based decision support system.

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1987-1988

Dept. of AI, University of Edinburgh

Environment:

UNIX, Sun, C++

Position:

Research Assistant, writing graphical tools for a collaborative project with Marconi building a sonar navigation system for autonomous underwater vehicles.

1986-1987

STL (STC's research lab), Stevenage

Environment:

UNIX, Sun, C

Position:

Graduate software engineer working on a toolkit to help write formal software specifications.

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Acorn (Cambridge), Research Machines (Oxford)

Environment:

PC, Acorn

Position:

Assistant in the technical authoring department (vacation jobs).